Laurie Toich, Assistant Editor

Currently, no consensus exists about whether chemotherapy or radiation should be used to treat early stage 2 testicular cancer.

Unbalance chloride levels be restored to stop cancer-related neuropathic pain.

Due to poor drug regulation and misleading marketing, less effective medications are being prescribed.

Pembrolizumab found to prevent disease progression in 54.5% of patients with advanced thyroid cancer.

Bacteriophage may eventually treat severe burns, surgical wounds, cystic fibrosis, and other immunocompromising conditions.

Patients who underwent surgery and then standard treatment lived 9 months longer than patients who just had the standard treatment.

Providers need to better inform patients about the risks of obesity and heart disease compared with breast cancer.

An increasing number of patients with HIV are 50 or older, which comes with new challenges for health care providers.

APR-246 was seen to successfully target mutated p53 genes in patients with cancer.

Breast cancer treatments that are similar in effectiveness are priced very differently, researchers discovered.

High rates of foster and Medicaid-insured children are receiving antipsychotics, but providers are not following the recommended guidelines.

D-Methadone was seen to have a superior effect on mobility than ketamine in postherpetic neuralgia.

D-Methadone was seen to have a superior effect on mobility than ketamine in postherpetic neuralgia.

Treatment with avasimibe causes pancreatic cancer cells to become more sensitive to ACAT-1 inhibition.

Patients with Medicare Advantage were more likely to have better health, less problems completing day-to-day tasks, and less memory problems.

Testing a genetic variant for a proposed drug could predict safety profile.

Varying treatments were seen among patients with diabetes, depression, and hypertension.

Pregnant women taking more than 1 anti-epileptic drugs could potential have an increased risk of fetal malformation.

Generic dofetilide capsules approved to treat atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter.

Approximately half of patients who received a high dose of the stem cells had reduced symptoms.

Progression-free survival was seen in 16 patients treated with a combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab.

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Patients administered high levels of methotrexate showed impaired cognitive function and altered brain anatomy.

Payers ranked oncology-related goals by importance and effectiveness at achieving the goal.

Researchers evaluate mechanism that prevents immune system from attacking tumors in melanoma.

Heart medications reduced plaque build-up in the brains of mice and has the potential to do the same in humans.

Patients with mutations in the gene NR1H3 have a 70% chance of developing a progressive form of MS.

Compared with current treatments, patients taking Actemra were able to sustain remission.

The uninsured rate in Texas is currently lower than it was in 1999.

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